XMEye

Formerly good app gone bad. Can't close ads now. For the first couple years worked ok. Then some ads, np. Then some video ads, had to wait some seconds. Now full screen ads that say wait 4 seconds and even after it won't close that video ad in a loop. Close entire app and sometimes it comes back to finally let me see the cameras. If this doesn't stop will junk the video system and find one without XMeye. If they think they can ad harass me enough to buy a pro version, guess again.

The app works well with my cheap Canavis DVR, and I have been using it for years. I recently discovered that the ads (specifically the full-page, unskipable one when you first open the app) can be turned off in the settings which was a huge relief. I never really minded the small banner ads, but being able to disable the startup ad was a major improvement.

I am modifying my review some. The issue doesn't seem to be the app. It's the cloud server the app is connecting to. It may be blocking the new version of the app. What I did was bypass the cloud server and use the DDNS ( Dynamic DNS option ) . I then open a port on my router and connected directly to my NVR. It's actually faster to do this option instead.